I have recently started to enjoy Ubuntu (rated highly) on the desktop but struggled with the package mangement environment a bit coming from SuSE/YaST. After sorting it out, I have successfully managed to get Asterisk v1.2.1 working on Ubuntu v5.10 without breaking the packages, too much.

[quote=“Wiki”]While Ubuntu has Asterisk in the distros, it is an old version at 1.0.9. In order to get the latest version compiled and running, you must first obtain and compile the libraries required for Asterisk:

After fighting for some time to use the Asterisk package that I got from Ubuntu, I went ahead and used the tutorial listed above. Except for a problem getting mpg123 to compile, it worked great and I have been running ever since (thanks fizgig).

If I have a little time, I will try to find the instructions I followed to get the Zaptel drivers and Asterisk to run when the system boots up.